Alan Moore Quotes

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

If we do not, it will end in bloodshed ... most probably.

Blood is one of the things that made fights cool. Like, you knew it had gotten serious. I understand why we don't do it anymore.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.

The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

We've created a more dangerous world. We've created more violence. We've unraveled the fabric of our own society. We've watched everything get worse. We've watched countries be destroyed, and we've watched war become the answer to every question.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth.

I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed.

All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.